More likely that even coming up with excuses was too much work for him relative to the reward of still milking afk supporters. When every excuse gets more and more ridiculous, sometimes its just better to say nothing and see how long it takes people to realize they are still sending you money.
IMO this has to be one of the most bold-faced scams on this website. With the silence now, what a lot of us have been saying for a while now is just completely out in the open, this has been a milking plot since the moment the Dev got support and nothing more...
My evidence? Since this Dev was supported he has released a single "part 1 intro" of effectively no content and then a bunch of milking tease comics that are also unfinished nonsense over the course of 2 years while coming up with the dumbest and most outlandish excuses.
I'm thankful I only supported him 3 months, our only hope of this game getting done, or hell even progressing, was this dev getting 0 proactive support and only paid-on-delivery. Once upon a time saying that in this thread would get you flamed.